TikTok users are now spending more time watching content than YouTube users are, according to a new report from App Annie. According to the data the average American (Android) user is watching almost 25 hours a month on TikTok, more than the ~23 hours a month the average YouTube user squeezes in. In the UK TikTok is even further ahead, with the average TikToker spending 26 hours a month on the app, ahead of a 16 hour average for YouTube users.
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Those comparisons are more interesting when you consider that most TikTok videos are somewhere between 15 and 30 seconds (although the maximum is up to 3 minutes). That suggests that the typical TikTok user is quite happy to sit and watch somewhere around 200 different 15 second videos every single day, compared to say a handful of YouTube videos that might run 10+ minutes. How far can the "short-form" format be pushed?
